Window screen and fixture



INVENTOR v ATTORNEYS.

G. H. GOULD.

Patented Feb. 28, 1888,

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WINDOW SCREEN AND FIXTURE.

(No Model.)

iUrrnn STATES PATENT tries.

GEORGE HOYVARD GOULD, OF WVEST LEBANON, MAINE.

WINDGW SCREEN AND FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 378,587, dated February 28, 1888.

Application filed July 21,1887. Serial No. 244,888. (No model.) I

To (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE HOWARD GOULD, of "West Lebanon, in the county of York and State of Maine, have invented a new and Improved \Vindow Screen and Fixtures, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to window screens,and has for its object to provide an inexpensive and efficient screen and fixtures therefor, which will allow the same screen to be readily fitted to windows of varying widths, and will permit adjustment and locking of the screen at any height in the window.

The invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combination of parts of the window'screen and fixtures, all as hereinafter described and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings,forn1ing apart ofthis specification,in which similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is an inside face view of a windowframe fitted with my improved screen, which is partly broken away and in section. Fig. 2 is a sectional plan View taken on the line or a Fig. 1; and Fig.3 is an outside face view of a portion of the screen.

The window-screen is made with a frame, A, a netting,B, of wire-cloth or other suitable material, stretched across the interior opening of the frame and secured by tacks or otherwise, and sheetnietal plates 0, which are preferably made in triangular general form, and are fixed by screws or nails 0 to the frame at the four corners of it, and preferably directly over the corners of the netting,as shown in full lines in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawings; but the corner plates, 0, may be fixed to the frame at its inner face, or at the side opposite that to which the netting is attached, and as shown in dotted lines in Fig. .2. The object of the corner plates, 0, is to stiffen and strengthen the screen-frame, and this object is attained to whichever side of the frame the plates are attached, and the plates may be stamped out with any desired face ornaments to give a pleasing appearance to the screen.

The opposite side bars, cm, of the frame are grooved at D D, to fit and slide upon metal or wood guide strlps or tongues E E, which are fixed to opposite sides oft'ne window frame or casing A, and are provided in the edges with series of notches e e, into any opposite two of which the inner ends of spring-catches F F,

fixed to the frame side bars, may enter to lock the screen at any desired position or height in the window-frame.

In Fig. 1 the screen is locked by the catches at the top of the window. The catches F are each formed of a bolt, fiwhich is fitted to slide in a hole made for it edgewise from the base of the screen frame groove D to theinner edge of the screen-frame side bar, a, and a spring portion, f, which at one end is connected to the outer end of the bolt f, and at its other end is fixed, at f, to the base of the groove D. The inner end of the catch-bolt f is formed as a hook, f which maybe grasped for drawing the catch from the guideslot eand against the tension of the spring f, when it is desired to shift the screen in the window-frame.

It will be noticed that the screen guides or tongues E E are made considerably wider than guide-strips usually employed for holding window-screens to a window-frame, and the screen-grooves D D are made still deeper in proportion,th us allowing the screentobe taken from thewindow,and without removing either of the guidestrips E, by simply pressing the screen edgewise to either side and compress- .ing one-of the spring-catches F until the opposite side oftho screen is clear of the adja cent guide E, when the screen may easily be swung outward and slipped from the opposite guide E, toward which it had been pressed.

The main object and chief advantage of making the screen-grooves D of considerable depth and the guides E of more than ordinary width is, however, to allow the same screen and guides to be applied to window-frames of different widths and in order to hold the same screen to window-frames of varying widths I have provided each of the screen-frame side bars, a a, with two series of holes,G G, which preferably range diagonally from the outer edges of the bars a a toward the center of the screen and allow two pins, H H, to be set into two holes, G G, directly over each other, and so that the two pins H H at each side of the screen will pass as closely as may be to the outer edges of the guides E E, and prevent excessive edgewise or side play of the screen while it is being slid or adjusted in the window. It is obvious that by adjusting the pins H in the screen-holes G nearer to the vertical center of the screen the screen may be fitted to a narrower window, and by adjusting the pins farther from the center of the screen or nearer to the window-frame the same screen may be fitted to a wider window, as circumstances may require.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A window-screen provided at opposite sides with deep grooves D D, and having series of holes G in its side bars, in combination with guide-strips E E, fixed to the window frame, and pins H, passed into the holes G to bear on the guides,substantially as described, for the purposes set forth.

2. A window-screen provided at opposite sides with deep grooves D D, and having series of holes G in its side bars, in combination with guide-strips E E, fixed to the windowframe and provided with edge notches 6, pins H, passed into the holes G to bear on the guides, and spring -catches F, fitted in the screen-frame and adapted to the guide-notches e, substantially as described, forthe purposes set forth.

' GEORGE HOWARD GOULD.

WVitnesses:

R. DE WITT BURNHAM, W. F. \VALLACE. 

